Tag: nancycdibenedetto

Here is my book, and I had a lot of fun making it. I am still new at making nice books, but I hope to use Blurb more in the future to make even better books. Making this book was a lot of fun, as I could take some photos and turn them into black and white to make them even more powerful and add some basic text. I try to describe each photo with a basic description and I think I did a great job. I found the Blurb interface in Id (Indesign CC 2017) to be very easy and I am glad that they supported the 2017 version (latest version) on my laptop so I did not have to worry about compatibility. I do eventually want to publish even more books and maybe use even better paper. I really ought to thank Nancy my professor for letting me be creative and making this wonderful book, as without her, I could not have made it.

What I liked about it is the ease of making a book, and that I have used Id before so it is not an issue for me. Blurb has so many options in regards to size and even paper, but I chose the cheapest option so I could save some money, but next time I want to use even better paper and push myself some more.

I did not have any real dislikes in this project, other than getting all the photos in design to work right, but I got around it. Some of my photos could have been taken better, but I should have probably spent more time and not forgotten my memory card the first time I started to make my project.

I got out a lot of this project in making this book. I got to learn more about blurb and how to make books. I feel satisfied and confident that I can make books going forward to maybe even make money and possibly sell them on Amazon or Barnes and Noble. Perhaps, I have found my niche (though that is for me to find out and debate about it). In the end I had fun in this book.

Did a bunch of photos in the CSUSM studio in the Kellogg Library and decided to take some good photographs of the students. I really enjoyed this assignment, though I did think there were too many people making it hard to get a good view. I think this is inspiring me to go into a studio and take some good photos of other people. I want to this assignment again which is rather shocking considering that nobody wants to do something like that more than once. The people there were nice, and the lighting did however make it harder to get a good shot due to the ISO and aperture causing a low shutter speed that made for blurry shots even with IS.

I tried to get shots with rembrandt lighting, frontal lighting, butterfly lighting and a side view. This is what my professor Nancy diBenedetto asked us to do. While I mightnot have been able to get a good shots because of this, I worked hard and did my best of what I was able to do.